Pharnakes

Family: Persian · Role: father of Artabazos · First appears: Book 7 · §57–69

Life events

• Artabazos led his troops away from the battle and fled toward the Hellespont.(Book 9 · §63–70 · 📍 Phokis)
  • With: Artabazos Mardonios
  • “Then he no longer led his men in the same order as before, but set off at a run, taking flight by the quickest way not to the palisade nor yet to the wall of the Thebans, but towards Phokis, desiring as quickly as possible to reach the Hellespont.”

Book 7 · §57–69

• child: Artabazos “Of these the commanders were, Artabazos the son of Pharnakes of the Parthians and Chorasmians, Azanes the son of Artaios of the Sogdians, and Artyphios the son of Artabanos of the Gandarians and Dadicans.”

Book 8 · §121–129

• child: Artabazos (Pharnakes is Artabazos's father.) “Artabazos meanwhile the son of Pharnakes, a man who was held in esteem among the Persians even before this and came to be so yet more after the events about Plataia, was escorting the king as far as the passage with six myriads of that army which Mardonios had selected for himself;”

Book 9 · §38–45

• child: Artabazos “then Mardonios the son of Gobryas and Artabazos the son of Pharnakes, who was esteemed by Xerxes as few of the Persians were besides, came to speech with one another”

Book 9 · §63–70

• child: Artabazos “Artabazos the son of Pharnakes”
• with Artabazos (Artabazos is Pharnakes’s son.) “But Artabazos the son of Pharnakes had been displeased at the very first because Mardonios remained behind after the king was gone;”

Book 9 · §88–95

• child: Artabazos “Artabazos meanwhile, the son of Pharnakes, in his flight”

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Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.